The Scientific Notebooks of German Orchidologist Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Kränzlin

cxcvi [196] PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.

bulb bore two spikes, 5 feet 6 inches in length, the one with twenty-four flowers, the other having eleven branches bearing forty-nine flowers.

To Mr. W. H. White (gr. to Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart.), for Platyclinis filiformis, with about one hunderd spikes.

Diploma Awards:—

Lælio-cattleya × elegans and hybrids.

First Diploma: Lælio-Cattleya × elegans Turneri, from J. Gurney Fowler, Esq.

Second Diploma: Lælio-cattleya × 'Berthe Fournier,' from Messrs. Charlesworth.

Cattleya Warscewiczii and hybrids.

First Diploma: Lælio-Cattleya × Nysa gloriosa, from Jeremiah Colman, Esq.

Second Diploma: Lælio-Cattleya × bletchleyensis, from Jeremiah Colman, Esq.

Other Exhibits.

Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., showed a small group of rare Orchids.

J. Gurney Fowler, Esq. (gr. Mr. Davis), showed Cattleya × Wavriniana in fine condition, and other hybrids.

C. J. Lucas, Esq. (gr. Mr. Duncan), staged a small group of hybrids.

F. Du Cane Godman, Esq. (gr. Mr. Moody), sent Satyrium carneum.

M. Jules Hye de Crom, Ghent, showed Miltonia × Hyeana (× Blenana × vexillaria Leopoldii).

ORCHID COMMITTEE, AUGUST 28, 1906.

Mr. J. Gurney Fowler in the Chair, and thirteen members present.

Awards Recommended:—

Silver-gilt Flora Medal.

To Messrs. Charlesworth, Bradford, for a group of hybrid Orchids.

Silver Flora Medal.

To Messrs. Sander, St. Albans, for a group in which fourteen spikes of Arachnanthe Lowii were displayed.

To Jeremiah Colman, Esq. (gr. Mr. Bound), for a group principally of Lælio-Cattleya × Nysa.

Silver Banksian Medal.

To R. I. Measures, Esq., Camberwell (gr. Mr. Smith), for a group.

To Messrs. Hugh Low, for a selection of Cattleyas &c.

To Messrs. Stanley, Southgate, for a group.

First-Class Certificate.

To Cattleya × Iris 'Countess of Morley' (bicolor × Dowiana aurea) (votes, unanimous), from Major G. L. Holford, C.I.E., C.V.O. (gr. Mr. [Alexander]